Ecology

Question 0

Which sphere represents life?

Answer 0

The Biosphere

Question 1

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 1

An ecosystem is interactions of organisms with the physical environment.

Question 2

What is a habitat?

Answer 2

A place where organisms adapt/live.

Question 3

What is a producer?

Answer 3

any organism that is capable of producing its own food, usually through photosynthesis.

Question 4

What is a consumer?

Answer 4

any organism that cannot produce its own food and must, therefore, get its energy by eating, or consuming, other organisms

Question 5

What is a decomposer?

Answer 5

an organism (bacteria or fungi) that lives on and breaks down dead organisms into useful things like minerals and rich soil.

Question 6

What is a Herbivore?

Answer 6

an organism that eats plant material only.

Question 7

What is an omnivore?

Answer 7

an organism that eats both plant and animal material.

Question 8

What is a carnivore?

Answer 8

an organism that eats only animal material.

Question 9

What is a food chain?

Answer 9

a food chain shows who eats what in a particular habitat.

Question 10

What is ecology?

Answer 10

the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.

Question 11

What is Heterotrophic?

Answer 11

An organism that doesn’t produce glucose.

Question 12

What is Autotrophic?

Answer 12

An organism that produces own food.

Question 13

What is a Detritivore?

Answer 13

A Detritivore is a small invertebrate such as a maggot or worms.

Question 14

What is the process of photosynthesis?

Answer 14

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) + Water (H2O) ➡️Sugars (C6 H12 O6) + Oxygen (O2) =Photosynthesis.
➡️= Sun's energy and Chlorophyll.

Question 15

What is the process of respiration?

Answer 15

Glucose (C6 H12 O6) +6 Oxygen (O2) ➡️➡️6 Carbon Dioxide (CO2) +6 Water (H2O) + ATP Energy = Respiration

Question 16

What is Respiration?

Answer 16

The sum total of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which oxygen is conveyed to tissues and cells, and the oxidation products, carbon dioxide and water are given off.

Question 17

What is Bio-accumulation?

Answer 17

The accumulation within living organisms of toxic substances occurring in the environment.

Question 18

What are bushfires?

Answer 18

Basically a bushfire is the combustion of bush, forest or woodland area.

Question 19

How do bushfires occur?

Answer 19

For a bushfire to start there needs to be fuel, in the form of leaves and/or wood and an ignition flame point.

Question 20

What are fuels that cause bushfires?

Answer 20

Eucalyptus leaves are extremely oily that will result as a good fuel for a fire. Hot climate can also impact if how long and dangerous a fire are.

Question 21

Why are bushfires important?

Answer 21

Some plants need heat and smoke to release seeds. This suggests that fires are critical to the successful reproduction of certain plant species. Example: Acacia and Banksias.
Bushfires release nutrients into the soil that allows plants to recover and seeds to grow quickly.

Question 22

How do bushfires move?

Answer 22

Bushfires move from many factors such as:
How much bush there is.
How dry it is.
How windy it is.
How steep the slopes are.

Question 23

What does SOC stand for?

Answer 23

Soil Organic Carbon

Question 24

What are the benefits of SOC?

Answer 24

Benefits of SOC are: raises the amount of food produced by raising health and yield, improves pastureland for livestock and releases nutrients like nitrogen and phosphate.

Question 25

Why were feral dung beetles introduced into Australia?

Answer 25

Feral dung beetles were introduced so they can handle the introduced cattle’s dung. Native Australian dung beetles can’t handle the cattle’s